David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough (born May 8, 1926) is a broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the respected face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.

19 TV shows

Ended

The Blue Planet

BBC One

Other Credits

This Morning, The One Show, Life in Cold Blood, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, The Terry and Gaby Show, First Life, Attenborough's Life in Colour, Life in the Undergrowth, Wildlife Specials, The Living Planet, Zoo Quest, State of the Planet, Trials of Life, The Life of Birds, The Life of Mammals, Life in the Freezer, Life on Earth, Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives, Nature's Great Events, The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet, The Tribal Eye, The First Eden, The Miracle of Bali, The People of Paradise, Are We Changing Planet Earth?, Life, Eastward With Attenborough, Tiger: Spy In The Jungle, Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958, Madagascar, Africa, David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, David Attenborough's Global Adventure, Life Story, David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, Frozen Planet, The Mating Game, The Hunt, David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies, Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World, Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough, Folk Britannia, Kingdom of Plants, Brave New World with Stephen Hawking, The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama, Micro Monsters with David Attenborough, Blue Planet UK, Blue Planet II, Tomorrow's World: People of Science, Wogan, Galapagos 3D with David Attenborough, Plants Behaving Badly, Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild, Dynasties, Blue Planet III, Wild Isles, Mammals, Frozen Planet II, Attenborough's Passion Projects, The Private Life of Plants, Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words, Genius of Britain, Adventure, Seven Worlds, One Planet, Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime, The Green Planet, How the BBC Began, Science Is News, Deep Ocean, Wildlife on One, Secrets of Wild India, A Perfect Planet, Wild City, Asia, Attenborough in Paradise, Fabulous Animals, Simon Schama's Story of Us, Winterwatch, Parenthood, Secret World of Sound, Echo and Other Elephants, Kingdom, The World About Us, David Attenborough's Wild City, Fateful Planet, Dynasties II, In Confidence, Secret Garden, RTL Tonight